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When children experience emotional upset or trauma, their problems are sometimes made worse by well-meaning adults who either don’t notice their distress or insist that they express themselves through an adult medium: verbal language. Play therapy, on the other hand, recognizes that imaginative play is the mode of expression most comfortable and natural to children and focuses on helping them express their emotions. A form of psychodynamic treatment, play therapy takes for granted the fact that, once aided in expression, children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves.
The equipment of play therapy is simple and familiar. Dolls, play dishes, soldiers, stuffed animals, and sandboxes all have their place in the play therapy room. The job of the therapist, however, is a bit more challenging, because he or she must refrain from guiding the child in a particular direction or asking pointed questions. The therapist’s task is partly to observe the child’s play and recognize the child’s emotions and help bring them to expression. The second, very important, task is for the therapist to accept the child unconditionally.
A well-known example of successful play therapy is documented in Dr. Virginia Axline’s book Dibs in Search of Self. Dibs is an emotionally disturbed 5-year-old whose teachers fear he may have brain damage. In his play therapy sessions with Dr. Axline, however, a different picture emerges. Dibs’ play with a dollhouse and several dolls reveals that he feels cut off from his family and that he is angry with them for locking him in his room. This theme is repeated in play with animals in the room’s sandbox; he frees them from captivity again and again. During the sessions, Dr. Axline is careful not to express preference for any of Dibs’ activities, and most of her comments are simply reflecting back to him what he has just said. Additionally, through her choices to help him express his anger rather than offering him comfort in it, Dr. Axline fosters in Dibs a sense of emotional independence. At the end of the case study, Dibs has emerged as a content, intelligent, compassionate child.
According to the passage, which of the following is a reason that play therapists help disturbed children express their emotions?
A. Children express themselves through a different medium than adults.
B. Children sometimes experience emotional upset or trauma.
C. The therapist’s task is to accept the child unconditionally.
D. Therapists observe children’s behavior and recognize the emotions being expressed.
E. Children can resolve their own anxieties once they have been aided in expression.
The equipment of play therapy is simple and familiar. Dolls, play dishes, soldiers, stuffed animals, and sandboxes all have their place in the play therapy room. The job of the therapist, however, is a bit more challenging, because he or she must refrain from guiding the child in a particular direction or asking pointed questions. The therapist’s task is partly to observe the child’s play and recognize the child’s emotions and help bring them to expression. The second, very important, task is for the therapist to accept the child unconditionally.
A well-known example of successful play therapy is documented in Dr. Virginia Axline’s book Dibs in Search of Self. Dibs is an emotionally disturbed 5-year-old whose teachers fear he may have brain damage. In his play therapy sessions with Dr. Axline, however, a different picture emerges. Dibs’ play with a dollhouse and several dolls reveals that he feels cut off from his family and that he is angry with them for locking him in his room. This theme is repeated in play with animals in the room’s sandbox; he frees them from captivity again and again. During the sessions, Dr. Axline is careful not to express preference for any of Dibs’ activities, and most of her comments are simply reflecting back to him what he has just said. Additionally, through her choices to help him express his anger rather than offering him comfort in it, Dr. Axline fosters in Dibs a sense of emotional independence. At the end of the case study, Dibs has emerged as a content, intelligent, compassionate child.
According to the passage, which of the following is a reason that play therapists help disturbed children express their emotions?
A. Children express themselves through a different medium than adults.
B. Children sometimes experience emotional upset or trauma.
C. The therapist’s task is to accept the child unconditionally.
D. Therapists observe children’s behavior and recognize the emotions being expressed.
E. Children can resolve their own anxieties once they have been aided in expression.
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Since this question uses the phrase according to the passage, the answer is stated in the passage. Aside from the general tone in the passage that play therapy is intended to help children, only this line relate a specific reason: play therapy takes for granted the fact that, once aided in expression, children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves.
A. This is stated in the first paragraph, but is not a reason for play therapists to help children express emotion.
B. Though true, this is not directly stated as a reason.
C. This information comes from the second and third paragraphs, but is a method not a reason.
D. Though this is an activity of the therapist, it is not a reason for helping the child express emotion.
E. Correct. This option correctly identifies that fact that the purpose of helping children express their emotions through play therapy is to allow them to resolve their anxieties themselves.
The correct answer is E
Since this question uses the phrase according to the passage, the answer is stated in the passage. Aside from the general tone in the passage that play therapy is intended to help children, only this line relate a specific reason: play therapy takes for granted the fact that, once aided in expression, children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves.
A. This is stated in the first paragraph, but is not a reason for play therapists to help children express emotion.
B. Though true, this is not directly stated as a reason.
C. This information comes from the second and third paragraphs, but is a method not a reason.
D. Though this is an activity of the therapist, it is not a reason for helping the child express emotion.
E. Correct. This option correctly identifies that fact that the purpose of helping children express their emotions through play therapy is to allow them to resolve their anxieties themselves.
The correct answer is E
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"A form of psychodynamic treatment, play therapy TAKES FOR GRANTED the fact that, once aided in expression, children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves."
Doesn't this statement introduce skepticism about the fact that children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves ?
And yet this one is chosen as the correct answer.
Doesn't this statement introduce skepticism about the fact that children are able to resolve their anxieties themselves ?
And yet this one is chosen as the correct answer.
